Biogeography and evolution of body size and life history of African frogs: Phylogeny of squeakers (Arthroleptis) and long-fingered frogs (Cardioglossa) estimated from mitochondrial data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 806-826

  Blackburn, David C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Arthroleptidae; Character evolution; Cryptic species; Direct development; Miniaturization; Schoutedenella

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANURA; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARTHROLEPTIDAE; ARTHROLEPTIS; CARDIOGLOSSA; MOCHOKIDAE; SCHOUTEDENELLA;

EID: 56549090404     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.015     Document Type: Article

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